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Otter on 24 September 2025
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curl-6 said:
firebush03 said:

Here's the thing with the two cross gen releases: (i) Metroid Prime 4 is an identical situation to BotW and Twilight Princess. It was promised for Nintendo Switch (and Wii (resp.)) all the way back in 2017 (and 2004 (resp.)), and Nintendo is following through. (That and I cannot imagine Retro is doing great financially, having not released an original title since Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and having scrapped a game that was in development for several years. The addition of the Switch 1 userbase probably helps the higher-ups and devs sleep at night.) (ii) Pokémon never releases exclusively on a system with a small installbase. Often Game Freak will hold off an extra year or two before releasing on a new Nintendo system. (And that's not even mentioning the fact that Legends Z-A is not a mainline entry, but a spinoff.)

That said, I don't anticipate we'll see many more cross gen releases besides Tomadachi Life and Rhythm Heaven.

Yeah Nintendo would piss off a lot of people if they told those who'd been waiting for Prime 4 since it was announced for Switch 1 over eight years ago that "lol, you have to buy a Switch 2 to play it, tough luck."

And yeah, I expect that any first party game announced from here on will be a Switch 2 exclusive, with Tomodachi Life or Rhythm Heaven (whichever comes out last) being the swan song for Switch 1 Nintendo support.

I think that's fair, and I understand Nintendo's thinking.

I also think it would of been worth it and that there would be very little backlash. A similar situation would be FFversus XIII  being re-announced for PS4 as FFXV or The Last Guardian being moved to PS4. The fan base in the end was just excited to see it come to life.

This could be the one Prime we get this generation. switch got the remake... Would of been nice to go all out on its potential and have that 1st party technical showpiece.  Especially considering the fan base imo is particularly on the more core side of things and I think 90% of sales will be on S2.

In the case of past Zelda's I think that's a bit different as every generation has its Zelda and neither restarted development at a point where it was clear they would arrive after the launch of a new platform. Twilight princess was seemingly delayed from 2005 just to coincide with Wii and I suspect BOTW from 2016. Ultimately though neither games (TP/BOTW) would have benefitted by dropping previous hardware. Gamecube > Wii and Wii U > Switch is not the kind of leap that changes asset creation or technical limitations on the world design. S1 > S2 is game changing by comparison